Quotes with co-writer

Quotes 241 till 260 of 271.

  • Anthony Doerr Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Levinson Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Burton Rascoe What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
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  • Bryce Courtenay What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bradley Whitford Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Alfred Kazin When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • David Leavitt When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Martin Amis When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Ernest Hemingway When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Writer's block is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
    MySpace blog, 09 April 2007
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Andy Rooney Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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